Tristan Hambling

cant seem to find the image.. any other link? - Wildcat

Awesome! I think I'm going to have to print that on our poster printer and put it up on my wall at home! - Björn Brembs

A million years from now, will our descendants still read works like Beowulf, Shakespearean plays, or even the Bible? Will they study any of the same mathematical concepts or scientific theories? If so, how will our data reach those future generations? It will likely be stored and continually transferred to the most advanced computer chip, right? Wrong. Try bacteria. - Tristan Hambling from Bookmarklet

software being created by IBM researchers, developers will be able to adapt a web page for voice browsers — and for mobile browsers that fall short of a PC-like web experience with easy-to-follow lines. + video - Tristan Hambling from Bookmarklet

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown that a highly specific intrabody (an antibody fragment that works against a target inside a cell) is capable of stalling the development of Huntington's disease in a variety of mouse models. - Tristan Hambling from Bookmarklet

"One of the most frequently raised arguments against renewable power sources is that they can only supply a low percentage of the total power because their unpredictability can destabilize the grid. Spain seems to have disproved this assertion. - Tristan Hambling from Bookmarklet

Health is well on its way to becoming an information science with genomic sequencing and synthesizing, bioinformatics and continuous automated biomarker capture. Energy is starting to be an information science with the smart grid, essentially an electron routing network allowing on-demand ingress and egress of diverse flows. - Tristan Hambling from Bookmarklet

Now an engineer, using software that he developed and about $10 worth of off-the-shelf hardware, has adapted cellphones to substitute for microscopes. “We convert cellphones into devices that diagnose diseases. - Tristan Hambling from Bookmarklet

uploaded videos from the AGI-09 conference, recently held at the University of Tennessee. AGI is the premier (and only) academic conference on Artificial General Intelligence. - Tristan Hambling from Bookmarklet

Microsoft is planning to show off a new visualization language, codenamed “Vedea” at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles in mid-November. - Tristan Hambling from Bookmarklet

Medical visualization software company FiatLux Imaging, Inc., from Redmond, WA, has announced that it is making available for download its FiatLux Visualize™ Free application. The software, designed to run on any computer with Windows, is a 2D/3D DICOM viewer for CT and MRI medical data. - Tristan Hambling from Bookmarklet

Designed to scan the heavens thousands to billions of light-years beyond the solar system, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has now recorded some more down-to-Earth signals. During its first 14 months of operation, the flying observatory has detected 17 gamma-ray flashes associated with terrestrial lightning storms. - Tristan Hambling from Bookmarklet

Simulating the brain with traditional chips would require impractical megawatts of power. One scientist has an alternative ccording to Kwabena Boahen, a computer scientist at Stanford University, a robot with a processor as smart as the human brain would require at least 10 megawatts to operate. - Tristan Hambling from Bookmarklet

This robot (its name is CARL) may not look especially biological (aside from the adorable little ears), but inside, it’s thinking with a computerized model of a rodent brain and interacting with the world through a “biologically plausible nervous system. - Tristan Hambling from Bookmarklet

The idea behind AT&T’s system is that you can walk around a city with a phone in your pocket and get alerted when a nearby retailer has a deal for you. Naturally, this is going to be very annoying to a consumer if they don’t like the place offering the deal, but customization is the key to this. A user could, for example, say they like Mexican food, and those types of coupons would pop-up when they were in the vicinity. - Tristan Hambling from Bookmarklet

Now some kids at the Intelligent Information Laboratory at Northwestern University are suggesting that an average game day story can be bolted together without human intervention. - Tristan Hambling from Bookmarklet